HistoryOfVietnamWarPortfolio

Books read:

  • "We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam" by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway

Documentaries To View:

  • Vietnam: A Television History
  • Return with honor

Films viewed:

  • Platoon
  • Born on the Fourth of July
  • Appocalypse Now
  • Deer Hunter
  • Good Morning Vietnam
  • Hamburger Hill
  • Killing Fields
  • Forest Gump
  • Hanoi Hilton
  • Jacob's Ladder

Other possibilities

(from http://mil.citrus.cc.ca.us/cat2courses/HIST155/syllabus.htm):

  • Heaven and Earth
  • Green Berets
  • Walking Dead
  • The Substitute
  • 84 Charlie Mopic
  • Bat 21
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Gardens of Stone
  • Coming Home
  • JFK
  • Nixon
  • The Big Lebowski
  • We Were Soldiers
  • Indochine
  • Boyz in the Hood
  • Air America
  • Cadence
  • Jackknife
  • In Country
  • A Bright Shining Lie
  • Ngo Dinh Diem - S. Vietnam leader; used family as advisors; distrustful; Catholic educated; out of touch with the people
  • Ho Chi Minh - traveled the world for 30 years before returning to Vietnam; spoke many languages
  • Vo Nguyen Giap - educated in law; initially reckless
  • Emperor Bao Dai -
  • Henry Kissinger -
  • Robert McNamara -
  • Nguyen Cao Ky -
  • Nguyen Van Thieu -
  • cadre - a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
  • Pham Van Dong -
  • Gen. Maxwell Taylor -
  • Gen. William C. Westmoreland -

Vietnam War timeline



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